Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

Marvelous are the innocent.